Jan. 13, 2012 - PRLog -- The Florida-based law firm Broad and Cassel is pleased to announce that West Palm Beach Managing Partner Patricia Lebow and Partner Clifford Hertz were selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.). Lebow was honored in both Bet-the-Company Litigation and Commercial Litigation categories and Hertz was recognized in the Real Estate category.

In total, 25 Broad and Cassel attorneys are featured in the new edition. Additionally, the firm received numerous first-tier rankings in the following practice areas in cities across the state:• Administrative/Regulatory Law• Commercial Litigation• Construction Law• Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law• Environmental Law• Health Care Law• Land Use & Zoning Law• Litigation – Eminent Domain & Condemnation• Public Finance Law• Real Estate Law

Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 41,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.9 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

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The Broad and Cassel West Palm Beach office was founded in 1983 by Managing Partner Patricia Lebow. The offices’ 20 attorneys focus their practices primarily in the following areas of law: Commercial Litigation, Real Estate, Land Use, Environmental, Estate Planning and Trusts, Trademark and Patent, Banking and Institutional Lending, Bankruptcy, Special Assets, Personal Injury, Construction Law and Litigation, Labor and Employment, Appellate, Business, Corporate and Securities transactions. Broad and Cassel is a full-service law firm, founded on January 1, 1946, and has more than 170 attorneys in eight offices across Florida. For more information, please visit us online at www.broadandcassel.com.